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"Łochinia" seems to be the bog bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum). They have a milder taste than bilberries. You sometimes find them in forests in Finland, but I'v

• kzrdude 3y ago
  These should be well known by nature people but I don't hear them discussed much. Today, because of this discussion, searching for some info, I found this interesting trivia observation someone blogged about: you can use bog bilberry to clean the color off your bilberry blue fingers. The explanation likely being that they are slightly acidic (it's hard to remove with just water and soap.) https://www.godt.no/aktuelt/i/eK1GOO/baeret-som-fjerner-blaabaerfarge https://www.godt.no/aktuelt/i/eK1GOO/baeret-som-fjerner-blaa... These berries have many names in scanidinavia too, but in norwegian I would know them as «skinntryte».
• ajuc 3y ago
  There's "jagoda", "borówka" and "łochinia" and the mapping from names to fruits switch in every region :). My grandma called bog billberies - "borówka", and "łochinie" were smaller, elongated blueberries with slightly green insides. They were less sweet and more tart than regular "jagoda". I think this is what she called "łochinia", but it grew in the forest so I'm not sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonicera_caerulea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonicera_caerulea